Seducţia lumilor (im)posibile. Note despre proza lui Urmuz
The Fascination with (Im)possible Worlds. Notes on Urmuz’s Experimental Prose

Summary/Abstract: In the present article, we set to prove that the experimental prose written by Urmuz/Dem. Demetrescu-Buzău (1883-1923) illustrates a particular version of Romanian inter-war æsthetic modernism, similar at a certain extent to the iconoclastic fervour of the avant-garde movement, but in effect dissociating itself from any recognizable contemporary paradigm. In this regard, I analysed the particular modalities in which the writer succeeds in constructing bizarre, (im)possible worlds, that entail various strategies of defamiliarization, including violations of current logic and ontological expectations.

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